Higareda, a former Marine who worked at the Border Patrol's Calexico office, was arrested along with Mexican citizen Marcelino Verdugo Cota on Jan. 4 after an undercover investigation by the FBI and the Homeland Security Department's Office of Inspector General.

According to the investigation, Higareda, who was under surveillance, was armed and in uniform when he drove to meet another car in the desert about seven miles east of the Calexico border crossing.

Federal agents tailed him as he drove at high speed before finally pulling him over in Holtville, where they found 10 duffel bags filled with marijuana in the vehicle.

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